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Article #8506Re: Trouble getting files from SIMTEL20
From: Brian R. Neumann
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 1989 13:23
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 1989 13:23
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In article <2584431E.3787@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca> cs4g6ag@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Stephen M. Dunn) writes:
>In article <14759@boulder.Colorado.EDU> atk@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Alan T. Krantz) writes:
>$you go from your unix machine to DOS you need to use some sort of binary
>$transfer such as kermit in binary mode ...
>
> I've had problems getting files downloaded from FTP to unarc on
>my DOS machine. I grab them in tenex mode, and download them with Procomm
>Plus's kermit server in binary mode, but almost always I end up with a CRC
>error somewhere in the archive. However, if I unarc them on this unix
>box, they work fine. Very strange. But it's a pain in the butt to have
>to download everything separately.
>
>Due to these two problems, I've basically
>given up on getting stuff from Simtel20 (and besides which, my hard disk
>is filling up :-)
I had this trouble and then gave up on simtel for a year. Then someone told
me a solution to the problem. On the mainframe, I invoke kermit by
kermit -i
^^^^^ to use binary mode. CRC checks are fine, and the programs run fine.
In the past couple months I've obtained about 30Meg of files...
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!udel!neumann From: neumann@udel.edu (Brian R. Neumann) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Trouble getting files from SIMTEL20 Message-ID: <6001@nigel.udel.EDU> Date: 13 Dec 89 13:23:11 GMT References: <4446@ur-cc.UUCP> <14759@boulder.Colorado.EDU> <2584431E.3787@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca> Sender: usenet@udel.EDU Reply-To: neumann@udel.edu (Brian R. Neumann) Distribution: usa Organization: U of Delaware Lines: 28